[Info-vax] Userland programming languages on VMS.

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 1/31/2022 9:28 AM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 1/31/2022 8:42 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2022-01-31, Phillip Helbig (undress to reply) 
>> <helbig at asclothestro.multivax.de> wrote:
>>> In article <ssurv4$nm1$1 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley
>>> <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>>>> Fortran and COBOL are not suitable for writing operating system 
>>>> userland
>>>> tools.
>>>
>>> Why not?
>>
>> For the same reason that OS designers moved from Fortran to C as the
>> system implementation language when C became available.
> 
> I am not aware of any OS done in Fortran.

Note: a few have been mentioned now - some that I had never heard of
and one that I was not aware was Fortran.

> And the world did not switch to C for OS development when C was
> invented. That happened 10-20 years later.

Clarification: when I wrote "the world" here I meant more than
just Unix that switched to C in 1973.

Arne